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I've always had a bizarre idea that it would be awesome to apply for some low level data entry job at a low-tech company with no programming staff. Then automat

I've always had a bizarre idea that it would be awesome to apply for some low level data entry job at a low-tech company with no programming staff. Then automate the task and get loads of work done while not actually being at the office, repeat this with several other jobs until the sum of the data entry jobs pay is greater than that of an individual programmer. But then I realized that, in most offices, work done is meaningless next to number of hours spent in the building ;)

wtracy 16y ago
My dad knew a guy who got fired trying to do what you described. Still, if you were motivated, you could get paid to sit and browse BoingBoing all day. :-)
- JonnieCache 16y ago
  >Still, if you were motivated, you could get paid to sit and browse BoingBoing all day. There are a lot of much easier ways to achieve this. As if you'd want to...